The Activator Adjusting Instrument - Biomechanical

• 1.Evaluation of Mechanical Allodynia in an Animal Immobilization Model using the Von Frey Method
• 2.The Force of the Activator® Adjusting Instrument
• 3.Accuracy of Piezoelectric Accelerometers Measuring Displacement of a Spinal Adjusting Instrument
• 4.Mechanical Force, Manually Assisted, Short Lever Chiropractic Adjustment
• 5.Skin Accelerometer Displacement and Relative Bone Movement of Adjacent Vertebrae in Response to Chiropractic Percussion Thrusts
• 6.Biomechanical Characterization (fingerprinting) of Five Novel Methods of Cervical Spine Manipulation
• 7.Measurement and Analysis of the In Vivo Posteroanterior Impulse Response of the Human Thoracolumbar Spine: A Feasibility Study
• 8.Evaluating Mechanical Force Manually Assisted Short lever adjusting using an anthropomorphic model
• 9.Evaluating Mechanical Force Manually Assisted Short Lever adjusting using an Anthropomorphic model
• 10.Measurement and Analysis of Interspinous Kinematics
• 11.Theory of small vertebral motions: an analytical model compared to data
• 12.Oscillations of the Vertebrae in Spinal Manipulative Therapy
• 13.Validation of the Force and Frequency Characteristics of the Activator Adjusting Instrument: Effectiveness as a Mechanical Impedance Measurement Tool
• 14.In Vivo Transient Vibration Assessment of the Normal Human Thoracolumbar Spine
• 15.The Effective Forces Transmitted by High-Speed, Low-Amplitude Thoracic Manipulation
• 16.Engineering-In Vivo Transient Vibration Analysis of the Normal Human Spine
• 17.Dynamic Response of the Human Lumbar Spine: A 5 DOF Lumped Parameter Time and Frequency Domain Model
• 18.Muscular And Mechanical Behavior Of The Lumbar Spine In Response To Dynamic Posteroanterior Forces
• 19.The mechanics of spinal manipulation
• 20.Movements of vertebrae during manipulative thrusts to unembalmed human cadavers
• 21.Movements of vertebrae during manipulative thrusts to unembalmed human cadavers
• 22.The diagnostic performance of vertebral displacement measurements derived from ultrasonic indentation in an in vivo model of degenerative disc disease
• 23.Preliminary study of the effects of a placebo chiropractic treatment with sham adjustments
• 24.The effects of spinal manipulation on the intensity of emotional arousal in phobic subjects exposed to a threat stimulus: a randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial
• 25.Variability of Force Magnitude and Force Duration in Manual and Instrument-Based Manipulation Techniques
• 26.Three-Dimensional Vertebral Motions Produced by Mechanical Force Spinal Manipulation
• 27.Dependence of the Delivered Force on the Force Setting on the Activator Adjusting Instrument
• 28.A Hypothesis of Chronic Back Pain: Ligament Subfailure Injuries Lead to Muscle Control Dysfunction